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Kill Your Patriarchs: An Interview with Michael Muhammad Knight

By Hussein Rashid

…, was photocopied and spiral-bound. Sold out of car trunks, given away for free, or bought over the internet (like I did in 2003), it was a sensation at the time. It is a sensation now, but for very different reasons. Soft Skull Press released a perfect-bound edition, with minor changes to the content, and it’s amazing what a difference presentation will make. In addition, they are releasing three more of MMK’s books: the sequel to Taqwacores, Osa…

American Nuns Under the Vatican Microscope

By Mary E. Hunt

…en who will promote them over their progressive sisters can just as easily promote others over them. It is the power dynamic, not just the people, that is at issue here. Postmodern Catholicism is a different animal than its pre-Vatican II cousin. Catholics (women and men, lay and clerical, secular and religious) think for themselves, forming new syntheses of faith and solidarity. Nuns, perhaps more than many other Catholics, took the mandates of V…

Oh My God…

By Gary Laderman

…George Burns in the Oh God series, Alanis Morissette in Dogma, and Morgan Freeman in Bruce Almighty. On TV’s The Simpsons and South Park, God is satirically mocked as an old giant with robes and gray hair and a strange looking, insect-eating rodent, respectively. The smash sensation video game, God of War, is now in its third incarnation, showing once again how human glorification of violence often goes hand-in-hand with religious imagery and sym…

Muslim Voices Festival: Story-telling For a New Millennium

By Hussein Rashid

…f one could not follow the language, as many in the audience could not. With continued shows like the one in New York, and Farooqi’s success in South Asia, he is well on his way to reviving this tradition….

By the Way: “Ten Commandments Judge” To Be Alabama’s Next Gov?

By Randall Balmer

…me logic applied to the second clause of the First Amendment, which covers freedom of the press. By his own reasoning, and that of all those who argue for “original intent” in their approach to the Constitution, freedom of the press would not include radio or television or the internet because the founders had no knowledge of these forms of media, just as they did not (according to Moore) know of any religions besides Christianity and Judaism. Doe…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…h Ministries (a virulent anti-gay organization that has been listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group) argued against allowing gays to serve openly in the US military. The final four paragraphs say more about Lively, the author of the notorious book The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party, than about the issue: Masculine-oriented male homosexuality tends also to be pederastic in nature, meaning that it often involves re…

For Sale to the Highest Bidder: The Trail of Tammy’s Tears

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ocially influential. The Bakkers even built a theme park, Heritage USA, in South Carolina that not only became one of the premier vacation spots in the nation, it also provided America with the image of the late Jerry Falwell sliding down a water slide while wearing his Sunday best. Unfortunately for their many devoted viewers, the Bakkers’ media reign came to an end in exactly a decade. In 1987 revelations of financial misappropriation and illici…

RD10Q: Spiritual Survival for LGBT Christians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…freaked. I called my editor in a panic and told her there’s no way I could promote a book that made me so uncomfortable just to look at it. I told her it looked like gay erotica. She disagreed, saying she thought it was a warm and inviting cover. “But, see, you live in San Francisco,” I told her. “I live in South Carolina. In San Fran that may be warm and inviting, here, that’s called porn.” The only good thing was that the font had changed to wha…

Religious Right: God Should Kill Health Care Reform to Save America from Herod

By Sarah Posner

…ould restrict the funding of abortion procedures,” also coalesces with the Freedom Federation, a coalition of religious right organizations that oppose health care reform, and The Oak Initiative, an initiative of Rick Joyner’s Morningstar Ministries. Through an email distributed by the Oak Initiative, Engle portrayed abortion coverage in the health care bill as the greatest moral crisis facing America, and told of a vision inspired by 1 Chronicles…

Rev. Ella Pearson Mitchell (1917-2008)

By Jonathan L. Walton

…stication of the black spoken word tradition that extends back to the West African griot. And, more importantly, she helped to open the minds (and improve the preaching) of scores of male clergy who claimed the pulpit as their gendered birthright. Whether in Oakland, Atlanta or Russia she reached beyond the African American community and across gender lines to teach what W.E.B. DuBois suggested over a hundred years ago, “The black preacher is the…